Old Magic and Greater Love

Old Magic and Greater Love
What’s in Store for Audiences in the Final ‘Harry Potter’ Film

By: G. Shane Morris|Published: July 14, 2011 1:38 PM

Three years after the Harry Potter series transformed Joanne Rowling from a struggling single mother to a global celebrity, Wyman Max of The Vancouver Sunasked a surprising question of the soft-spoken children’s author, then 35: “Are you a Christian?”

“Yes, I am,” she replied. “. . . Every time I’ve been asked if I believe in God, I’ve said yes, because I do. But no one ever really has gone any more deeply into it than that, and I have to say that does suit me, because if I talk too freely about that I think the intelligent reader, whether ten or sixty, will be able to guess what’s coming in the books.”

Four years after the release of the final novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and anticipating this weekend’s arrival of the last Warner Brothers film based on that book, it has become more apparent than ever why Rowling feared that her religious views, if widely known, could have spoiled her legend’s ending for millions of fans.

Sacrificial love, death, the soul, the afterlife and resurrection define and fuel this adventure. And whether you adore or detest The Boy Who Lived…